Ryanair boss gets smacked with the Twitter stick in virtual Q&A

Michael O’Leary, the outspoken CEO of deep discount airline Ryanair
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Not surprisingly, things got ugly faster than you can say “one euro to use the bathroom.” But it did start off innocently enough.

It didn’t take him long to stir things up a bit, though. When answering one of the first questions posed to him, O’Leary responded to the lady with “Nice pic. Phwoaaar!” The retorts of “sexist pig” were just a warm up for what was to come.

Fun and games aside, the Ryanair boss did divulge plans to introduce smartphone-enabled check-in by summertime and also said there are no plans in the works to go with assigned seating, a la rival easyJet
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